Search the Dictionary

Inflated; boastful.

A common weed (Ambrosia artemisiæge). See Ambrosia, 3.

Hollow. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Keeping at home.

Sweet as honey. Chaucer.

One who, or that which, blows a horn.

The power which a horse exerts.

A composite plant (Erigeron Canadensis), which is a common weed.

To smooth; to plane; as, to howel a cask.

The upper stage of a porcelian furnace.

In whetever manner, way, or degree. However yet they me despise and spite. Spenser. Howe'er the business goes, you have made fault. Shak.

A denomination of weight, containing 100, 112, or 120 pounds avoirdupois, according to differing laws or customs. By the legal standard of England it is 112 pounds. In most of the United States, both in practice and by law, it is 100 pounds avoirdupois, the corresponding ton of 2,000 pounds, sometimes called the short…

See Embowel.

See Embower.

See Empower.

To dwell in; to abide within; to remain in possession. The Holy Ghost became a dove, not as a symbol, but as a constantly indwelt form. Milman.

An inhabitant. Spenser.

Residence within, as in the heart. The personal indwelling of the Spirit in believers. South.

Narrowed at the forward end; -- said of an automobile frame when the side members are closer together at the forward end than at the rear.

ns or obtaining information for publication. It would have made him the prince of interviewers in these days. Leslie Stephen.